�Factcheck: Who owns the media in India like NDTV, India Today

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There are several major publishing groups in India, the most prominent among them being the Times of India Group, The Hindu group,the Anandbazar Patrika Grup, the Eenadu group, the Malyalam Manorma Group, the Mathrubhum group, the Sahara Group, the Bhaskar group and the Dainik Jagaran group.

Let us see the ownership of different media agencies

NDTV: Avery popular TV news media is funded by Gospels of Charity in Spain. Supports Communism. Recently it has developed a soft corner towards Pakistan because Pakistan President has allowed only this channel to be aired in Pakistan. Indian CEO Pranoy Roy is co-founder of Prakash Karat,General Secratory of Communist party of India. His wife andBrinda Karat are sisters.

India Today which used to be the only national weekly who supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

CNN-IBN: This is 100 percent funded by Southern Baptist Church with ts branches in all over the world with HQ in US. The Church annually allocated $800 million for promotion of its channel. Its Indian head is Rajdeeo Sardesai and his wife Sagarika Ghosh.

Times group list: Times of India, Mid-day, Nav-Bharat Times, Stardust, Femina, VijayTimes, Vijaya Karnataka,Times now(24 hour news channel) and more. Times Group is owned by Bennet & Coleman. “World Christian Council” does 80 percent of the funding, and an Englishman andan Italian equally share balance 20 percent. The Italian Robertio Minado is a close relative of Sonia Gandhi.

Start TV: it is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne.

Hindustan Times: owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartya took over. Presently it is working in Colobration with Times Group.

The Hindu: English daily started over 125 years has recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland, N.Rams’s wife is a Swiss natinal

Viral Message Verification – Starting with the first claim, the question is that Is it true that NDTV is the only Indian channel to be telecasted in Pakistan? And the answer is no, indeed all Indian channels are banned in Pakistan, it is a hoax news.

Read timesofindia for more information.

It is a complete hoax message. There is no news to verify that NDTV is funded by Gospel of charity or from Pakistan or any other places which are against India. it is a false rumor. However there are various allegation’s on NDTV for its closeness towards Congress and CPI (M)..

India Today which used to be the only national weekly that supported BJP is now bought by NDTV!! Since then the tone has changed drastically and turned into Hindu bashing.

India Today is owned by Living Media, whose owner is Aditya Birla Groups. There is no link of India today and NDTV

CNN-News18 (originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. Reliance Industries already has indirect control in the TV18 network by virtue of investments it made in Network18 Hence the Rumour of Souther Baptist with branches all over is totally fake and misleading. There is no information to prove this information.

Yes it is fact that times group is owned by Bennet & Coleman and information is true for the media associated with this viral message, however the truth about Sonia Gandhi is false.

Start TV: it is run by an Australian, who is supported by St. Peters Pontificial Church Melbourne.

Star Television Network was an attempt at a fifth broadcasting network based in Orlando, Florida.

Hindustan Times: owned by Birla Group, but hands have changed since Shobana Bhartya took over. Presently it is working in Colobration with Times Group.

Hindustan times is owned by Rajya Sabha M.P Shobhana Bhartia who is nominated by the Congress and hence has some leaning towards Congress. Hindustan Times is owned by the KK Birla branch of the Birla family.

The Hindu: English daily started over 125 years has recently taken over by Joshua Society, Berne, Switzerland, N.Rams’s wife is a Swiss natinal

The Hindu is an English-language Indian daily newspaper. Headquartered at Chennai, The Hindu was published weekly when it was launched in 1878, and started publishing daily in 1889. The Hindu is owned by The Hindu Group, and Kasturi and Sons Limited. It is a false claim that it is owned by Joshua Society Berne, Switzerland, N.Rams’s wife is a Swiss natinal

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